Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides (2011) (GUEST: Alexander Miller Producer of The Trailer Project)
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Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher and very special guest Alexander Miller (Producer of The Trailer Project) discuss Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), and Captain Blackbeard (Ian McShane) all try to track down the Fountain of Youth. To get there, they will have to find hidden treasure, trick deadly mermaids, and avoid a Spanish Armada.

Inspired by the Tim Powers novel On Stranger Tides (itself an inspiration for the classic Monkey Island computer game series), this flick tries to be a soft reboot and instead just sits there on the silver screen with no real sense of purpose. Things start off with flourish as Captain Jack poses as a Judge, runs through the streets of London, and battles a doppelganger. A heavy quest structure bogs down the rest of the story which lumbers along with a handful of milquetoast characters. 

Mat loves the super detailed production histories in the recent tome Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones. Alexander digs the Abel Ferrara vampiric drug allegory The Addiction, but was less impressed with the recent Dick Cheney biopic Vice. Thrasher likes the recent meme spawning Netflix feature Bird Box. 

The next few movie series we'll be covering are:

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)

• The Fugitive (1993)

• U.S. Marshals (1998) 

• Waxwork (1988)

• Waxwork 2: Lost in Time (1992)

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